I like to use Denuvo as an indicator of a bad release. For someone with over 3k hours on PAYDAY 2, I just cancelled my preorder.

Thank you for the fun times OVERKILL, sad to see you go this way.

Denuvo has become a very strong indicator to me that not the game devs are calling the shots during development, but the Excel-sheet-business-suit-monkeys are.

Only some business-fool would look at a proposal to buy that piece of performance-guzzling crap and go "Hey, then everyone who'd be a pirate otherwise will buy my product and spend money in muh cash shop, that's totally worth the investment", ignoring the immense drawbacks for paying costumers.

especially in a frickin' coop-shooter where piracy will never be as big of a deal because people want to play together with others on your frickin' servers anyway....

Bro who tf is stealing Payday let alone to play alone. What a waste of money and a fuck you to paying customers.

Isn't the game going to be online only in the first place? They're adding DRM on top of their DRM?

Adding DRM to a co-op game is one of the stupidest things you can do. The only thing I can think of that would be worse would be adding DRM to a game that is already always-online.

"Payday 3 guarantees an objecticely worse user experience at launch on pc version"

Golden Rule: Denuvo games exist if and only if cracked by EMPRESS

seems like a great way to punish honest people every time they try to play your game and mildly inconvenience pirates for about a week

The price of this game makes it one you should definitely be a patient gamer on. Not only will you save a ton of money but it'll probably be Denuvo free eventually too.

It'll be on game pass so I'll probably still test it out, but I really don't get why a Payday game would need anti-piracy measures since the whole point is to play co-op

Oh, this game’s gonna have a rough launch won’t it?

guess what game i will never play even if i wanted to my os kinda dosen't do kernel pevel drm

The constant updates and online features were reason enough to not pirate payday 2 tbh. This is no good. Just lost a customer. Sad

It's probably unlikely to happwn soon but in that case the only right answer is piracy once they found a way around this shit again!

Good to know I should download the free version instead

Multi-decade old history repeating itself. This will only harm people who actually waste their money